TV STAGE TUBE: The Official WICKED Tour Trailer

WICKED has "cast quite a spell" throughout North America, breaking box office records in every city that it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a few. WICKED has a fantastic "tour" trailer that includes dynamic performance footage of former National Tour stars Stephanie J. Block and Kendra Kassebaum and you can see it right here on Stage Tube!

Called "one of the most successful shows in Broadway history" by The New York Times and "a phenomenon that keeps growing" by the Los Angeles Times, WICKED continues to thrill audiences around the world. There are currently eight productions of WICKED worldwide, including two North American tours, a Broadway production, San Francisco production, London production, a Japanese-language production, a German-language production and Australian production. A Dutch-language production of WICKED will open in 2010.

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, WICKED has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The production is directed by Joe Mantello, with Musical Staging by Wayne Cilento. WICKED is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.

Winner of 20 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, WICKED is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch

Following the premiere in Fort Myers, the tour will fly into:

Birmingham BJCC Concert Hall April 3-19, 2009

Jacksonville Times Union Center April 23-May 10, 2009

Norfolk Chrysler Hall May 13-31, 2009

Indianapolis Murat Centre June 3-21, 2009

Memphis Orpheum Theatre June 24-July 12, 2009

Tulsa Chapman Music Hall July 15-August 9, 2009

Austin Bass Hall August 12-30, 2009

Nashville TPAC September 2-20, 2009

Des Moines Civic Center September 23-Oct 18, 2009

Wichita Century II Concert Hall October 21-Nov 8, 2009

Additional cities will be announced in the future.

The 1st North American tour of WICKED, which has been seen by more than 4.4 million people and broken the house record in every single city in which it has played, will continue to fly into cities across North America. Upcoming tour stops include:

Portland Keller Auditorium March 4-April 5, 2009

Salt Lake City Capitol Theatre April 8-May 3, 2009

Omaha Orpheum Theatre May 6-31, 2009

San Antonio Majestic Theatre June 3-28, 2009

Tempe Gammage Auditorium July 1-26, 2009

San Diego Civic Theatre July 29-August 23, 2009

Seattle Paramount August 26-September 27, 2009

Additional cities will be announced in the future.

For more information about WICKED, log on to www.wickedthemusical.com.